Download e-book for kindle: Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist: And Other Strange-but-True by Robert Damon Schneck

American background is greater than simply what you learn on your highschool textbooks.

There's a wild and bizarre facet to America's prior, packed with unknown creatures, weird and wonderful happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and author Robert Damon Schneck has spent greater than a decade dedicated to sleuthing out those forgotten bizarre, ugly, and mysterious gemstones of yankee heritage, like:

• the fellow who preached sturdy healthiness via blood-drinking.

• The California kinfolk pushed insane through Ouija board séances, and the nationwide panic that they ignited

• The West Virginia city named after its resident poltergeist, who was once keen about slicing every little thing into crescent shapes.

• The Antichrist-obsessed cult chief whose disciples grew to become brutal murderers, all within the identify of saving her (and the world).

You’ll additionally find out about selfmade guillotines, magical ape-men on Mt. St. Helens, the psychic who smuggled a crystal ball into the White residence, and the origins of these baffling sleek bogeys, evil clowns using vans.

These traditionally researched, scrupulously confirmed, and regularly shockingly precise stories during this assortment come from an the US that lies past the skyscrapers, cornfields, and suburban strip department shops the place we make our homes—a position the place monsters safeguard buried treasures, schoolgirls improve stigmata, and we by no means run out of odd things.

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Set within the days of small, neighborhood banks while embarrassing marketers have been the single kinfolk on the town who obtained a brand new automobile each year—those autos everybody else referred to as ‘gunboats—and the undesirable men got here with black hats, this rollicking send-up of silly criminals who even Barnie Fife may have outwitted makes for belly-laughs whereas examining and stories that may carry smiles to readers’ faces.